“Mystery & Benevolence” is a collection of objects used for decades by the two organizations in their ritualized, often secret, practices. On display are scythes and skulls, costumes and banners, ...

Around 50 community members gathered at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History on a brisk and sunny Saturday morning to ...

Contemporary artists are reclaiming picture frames and transforming them into sites of storytelling, history, and embodied ...

How did Gothic art influence the modernists? An exhibition in Norway explores how artists like Dürer and Hans Holbein's ...

In Michelangelo's painting "The Creation of Adam," reclining Adam, his left hand listlessly outstretched, awaits God's ...

By Eleanor Stanford The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the greatest contemporary art. By Jason Farago Textile ...

masonic rites, military ritual, or readings from family members. Committal services, in which loved ones gather to commit a loved one to the Earth — a symbolic gesture of healing. Immediate ...

A new White House executive order says the exhibition is an example of how the Smithsonian portrays "American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive." ...